Lord of the Flies
William Golding
Chapter Two & Three
Lord of the Flies – chapter two
TASK 1: What rule is made about the conch?
• ‘…We’ll have to have ‘Hands up’like at school.’ (p
43)
• ‘I’ll give the conch to the next person to speak.
He can hold it when he’s speaking.’ (p 43)
Can the person with the conch be interrupted?
• And he won’t be interrupted. Except by me.’ (p
44)
Which symbolic meaning does the conch hold
for the boys?
Lord of the Flies – chapter two
TASK 2: “Did anyone find anything else?” Jack p 45
What does the little boy want to say to the
meeting?
How do Ralph, Jack and Piggy react to that?
Lord of the Flies – chapter two
TASK 3: Why does the assembly break up?
How do Ralph, Jack and Piggy react to that?
Lord of the Flies – chapter two
TASK 4:Look up a relevant quotation
describing the behaviour of:
type of
behaviour
childish
mature
frightened
violent
caring
good leadership
Ralph
Jack
Piggy
Lord of the Flies – chapter two
TASK 5: How do they light the fire?
Does the fire fulfill its purpose?
What decision is taken about keeping the fire?
What happened to the boy with the mulberrycoloured mark on his face?
Lord of the Flies – chapter two
TASK 6: Piggy’s speech. What does he mean
when he says:
‘You got your small fire all right.’(p 56)
‘We ought to be more careful. I’m scared.’(p58)
‘I got the conch, ain’t I Ralph?’ (p 58)
‘How can you expect to be rescued if you don’t
put first things first and act proper.’ (p 58)
• The little’uns. Who knows how many we got?’
(p 59)
• ‘Him that talked about the snakes’ (p 60)
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Lord of the Flies – chapter two
TASK 7: Test yourself
comprehension chapter two
TASK 8: Video
Which important events are interpreted in a
different way?
Lord of the Flies – chapter three
TASK 1: Jack hunting (p 61-63)
• Look up two similes the author uses to describe
Jack hunting.
• Take notes on his general appearance.
• What is he compared to? Why?
• How does his description from the beginning of
chapter three relate to his own words: ‘After all,
we’re not savages. We’re English, and the
English are best at everything, so we’ve got to do
the right things.’ (p 55)
Lord of the Flies – chapter three
TASK 2: Ralph & Jack
• initial attitude to each other. (e.g. pp 31, 39,
51)
• different priorities
Ralph
Jack
• about the ‘littluns’
Ralph & Jack
• about the fear
Ralph & Jack
Lord of the Flies – chapter three
TASK 2: Analyse the quotation.
‘They were both red in the face and found looking
at each other difficult.’ (p 65)
‘I was talking about smoke! Don’t you want to be
rescued? All you can talk about is pig, pig, pig!’
(p 68)
‘And I work all day with nothing but Simon and
you come back and don’t even notice the huts!’
(p 69)
‘They walked along, two continents of experience
and feeling, unable to communicate.’ (p 70)
Lord of the Flies – chapter three
Simon
• Which new facts do we learn about his
appearance?
• Where does he go?
• Why do you think he goes there?
• Describe the place.
Summary Quiz
Lord of the Flies – chapter three
Ralph’s Priorities:
‘If it rains like when we dropped in we’ll need
shelters all right. And then another thing. We need
shelters because of the____’ (p 66)
‘The best thing we can do is get ourselves rescued.’
(p 67)
‘I’ll come back and go on with the shelter.’ (p 70)
Lord of the Flies – chapter three
Jack’s Priorities:
‘I went on, … I had to go on. … I thought, by myself
… I thought I might kill.’ (p 65)
‘Rescue? Yes, of course! All the same, I’d like to
catch a pig first___’ (p 67)
‘If I could only get a pig!’ (p 70)
Lord of the Flies – chapter three
Ralph & Jack about the littluns:
‘Well. They are frightened.’ (p 66)
‘Have you been awake at night? … They talk
and scream… ‘ (p 66)
‘They’re batty.’ (p 66)
‘Well, the littluns are___ They are hopeless.’
(p 64)
Lord of the Flies – chapter three
Ralph & Jack about the fear:
‘As if it wasn’t a good island. … As if … the beastie,
the beastie or the snake thing was real.’
(Simon p 66)
‘There’s nothing in it of course. Just a feeling. But
you can feel as if you’re not hunting, but – being
hunted; as if something’s behind you all the time
in the jungle.’ (p 67)
Lord of the Flies – chapter three
‘He was down like a sprinter, his nose only a few
inches from the humid earth.’ (p 61)
‘He passed like a shadow under the darkness of
the tree and crouched, looking down at the
trodden ground at his feet.’ (p 62)
Lord of the Flies – chapter three
‘His sandy hair, considerably longer than it had
been when they dropped in, was lighter now; and
his bare back was a mass of dark freckles and
peeling sunburn. A sharpened stick about five feet
long trailed from his right hand; and except for a
pair of tattered shorts held up by his knife-belt he
was naked.’ (p 61)
‘They were bright blue, eyes that in this
frustration seemed bolting and nearly mad.’ (p 62)
Lord of the Flies – chapter three
‘Then dog-like, uncomfortably on all fours yet
unheeding his discomfort, he stole forward five
yards and stopped.’ (p 61)
‘Jack himself shrank at this cry with a hiss of
indrawn breath; and for a minute became less
than a hunter than a furtive thing, ape-like among
the tangle of trees.’ (p 62)